Poetry Quotes - Page 27

Lyrical poetry is much the same an every age, as the songs of the nightingales in every spring-time.

Poetry must find ways of breaking distance.... all languages are dialects that are made to break new grounds.

Poetry is concerned with using with abusing, with losing with wanting, with denying with avoiding with adoring with replacing the noun. It is doing that always doing that, doing that and doing nothing but that. Poetry is doing nothing but using losing refusing and pleasing and betraying and caressing nouns. That is what poetry does, that is what poetry has to do no matter what kind of poetry it is. And there are a great many kinds of poetry.

Poetry is to a painting what life is to man.

My father loved poetry and music. But deep in himself he thought teaching the finest thing a person could do.

The high-water mark, so to speak, of Socialist literature is W.H. Auden, a sort of gutless Kipling.

The man of science is nothing if not a poet gone wrong.

Poetry's a mere drug, Sir.

My publishers will make any kind of a beautiful book I design and send in to them, but ... For poetry they have less use than a rooster would have for skates.

Poets and writers who are in love with the superlative all want to do more than they can.

Prose talks and poetry sings.

I am not a painter. I am a poet. / Why? I think I would rather be / a painter, but I am not.

Poetry is either something that lives like fire inside you

To break the pentameter, that was the first heave

Poetry must be as well written as prose.

... what is great poetry, after all, but the continuation of the human voice after death?

If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.

The earnings of a poet could be reckoned by a metaphysician rather than a bookkeeper.

You speak As one who fed on poetry.

The poet in prose or verse - the creator - can only stamp his images forcibly on the page in proportion as he has forcibly felt, ardently nursed, and long brooded over them.

I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.

The essentials of poetry are rhythm, dance, and the human voice.

The true evolutionary epic, retold as poetry, is as intrinsically ennobling as any religious epic.

poetry had everything to teach me about life.

Poetry is an act of distillation. It takes contingency samples, is selective. It telescopes time. It focuses what most often floods past us in a polite blur.